Argentinian lawyer mocks UK’s sovereignty claim in Falklands oil case

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Argentina has challenged Britain’s sovereignty claim over waters around the Falkland Islands in a hearing before an international tribunal in Hamburg. Argentine lawyer Marcelo Kohen argued that Britain should not rely on a historical doctrine to claim authority over expansive ocean areas.

Lawyer says Britain wrong to believe in historic doctrine that crown has sovereignty over parts of oceans Britain should not be permitted to act as a 17th-century colonial power treating the waters around the Falkland Islands as a Dominium maris Britannici, Argentina has told an international tribunal. Marcelo Kohen, representing Argentina at a hearing in Hamburg, mocked Britain for apparently believing in the historic doctrine that the British crown has sovereignty over expansive parts of the oceans. Continue reading...